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This refresher program provides tailored updates for your team, using the latest evidence-based information and clinical guidelines across the maternity care continuum.
Facilitated by Clinical Midwifery Educators from the Women’s Maternity Services Education Program (MSEP), the program is delivered in collaboration with other specialists from the Women’s and experts in the maternity field.
Program format
- Online: 2–4 hour session
- Face-to-face: Full-day program
Interested in co-designing a program? Our Clinical Midwifery Educators can work with you to develop a session that meets the needs of your service.
Topics
Examples of available topics include (but are not limited to):
Antenatal
- Antenatal care and screening
- Abdominal palpation and fetal growth assessment
- Family violence screening
- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
- Pelvic floor health
Intrapartum
- Birth centre skills (e.g. artificial rupture of membranes, fetal scalp electrode application, speculum examination, episiotomy, cervical assessment and Bishop score)
- Escalation of care
- Obstetric emergency management (e.g. vaginal breech birth, postpartum haemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, cord prolapse)
Postnatal
- Breastfeeding and associated complications
- Introduction to newborn examination
- Pelvic floor and bladder care
- Postnatal care and complications (mother)
- When things don’t go to plan (newborns)
- Perinatal loss and bereavement care*
*Incorporates preconception care and all stages of pregnancy, labour and postpartum.
Contact MSEP
Phone: (03) 8345 3920
Email: msep@thewomens.org.au